The site of one of the most famous battles in British history and the home of a mythical monster have made it on to a list of Europe’s best “secret” locations.

Although everyone knows the date when Harold II took an arrow in the eye and lost the crown to William the Conquerer, the travel guidebook publisher Lonely Planet has described the East Sussex town of Battle, where the Battle of Hastings took place, as one of 50 undiscovered and overlooked destinations. Its latest publication, Secret Europe, says that “few make the journey to see where it happened” and described